[Gluster-users] Problems with prefix when building glusterfs-1.4.0rc7

[Anand Avati]

> I tried installing 1.4.0rc7 using:
> ./configure --prefix=/ --disable-bdb --disable-mod_glusterfs
>
> The prefix=/ was to make sure that the default paths for configuration
> and log files are /etc/glusterfs and /var/log/glusterfs.

For that you do --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/var.


> test -z "//lib" || mkdir -p -- "//lib"
>  /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c
> 'libglusterfsclient.la' '//lib/libglusterfsclient.la'
> libtool: install: error: cannot install `libglusterfsclient.la' to a
> directory not ending in /usr/lib
> make[3]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/root/admin/glusterfs/build/glusterfs-1.4.0rc7/libglusterfsclient/src'
> make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/root/admin/glusterfs/build/glusterfs-1.4.0rc7/libglusterfsclient/src'
> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/root/admin/glusterfs/build/glusterfs-1.4.0rc7/libglusterfsclient'
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>
>
> So i'm guessing there's a usr/ missing on the installation path of
> libglusterfsclient.

It seems to be a libtool requirement and not specific to glusterfs